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Your Democracy Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 08:57 Source

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned Democrats on Monday against moderating their economic agenda to cater to the demands of wealthy donors ahead of the 2026 and 2028 election cycles.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 08:30 Source

There’s nothing quite like the spectacle of the most hated group of people in Australia banning hate! Politicians! Anthony Albanese’s bill to combat antisemitism will pass parliament in coming days despite an 11th-hour hurdle thrown up by opposition MPs harbouring concerns over proposed new powers that would allow the government to proscribe and ban “hate groups”. Despite

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Your Democracy Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 07:24 Source

Trump’s Washington runs on proximity, power and unpredictability. Australia’s next ambassador must be chosen for clarity, skill and seriousness.

Whoever Anthony Albanese appoints to replace Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to the US is likely to have a tough task explaining to the White House why Australia stands with Europe to resist Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.

 

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Your Democracy Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 06:55 Source

 

The EU leaders have held an emergency meeting over Trump’s tariffs threat over Greenland. After the meeting was concluded the EU officials have stated that the EU would respond with tariffs of their own and some have even suggested the Anti-Coercion Instrument, a tool which hasn’t been used before.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIa8DO-9WyE

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Your Democracy Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 06:55 Source

Just like during all the recent Iran protests, the language used by Western politicians and media follows a familiar script: “freedom,” “democracy,” and “support for the protesters” is what Europe and the US present as their priorities. Washington and London present themselves as moral actors, standing on the side of the protesters against an oppressive state. 

 

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Digitopoly Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 05:38 Source

A firm in a “pick and shovel” market produces a good or service that serves as an input to other businesses. A “frontier” pick-and-shovel supplier has made a significant technical breakthrough in applied science or engineering that has enabled capabilities in its product previously considered impractical, uneconomical, or impossible.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 00:05 Source

According to Cotality, Australia’s dwelling value-to-income ratio was tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025. Despite three 25-bp interest rate decreases from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the percentage of median family income required to service a new mortgage on a median-priced home was still historically high, at

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Renew Economy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 20:28 Source

Ireland's oldest wind farm decommissioned to make way for expansion of adjoining project that will feature 18 turbines - each bigger than the entire project they replace.

The post Ireland’s oldest wind farm closes down to make way for one of Europe’s largest projects appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 20:14 Source

Goyder South wind farmCEFC provides another $70 million to help $100 billion state-run investment fund drive more emission cuts in portfolio companies.

The post CEFC commits $70 million to energy and transport projects backed by state owned fund investment fund appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 18:10 Source

CS Energy has blamed human error on an internal IT network for the sudden outage that caused the trip of the two units at the Callide C coal generator last Thursday.

The post Human error on internal IT network blamed for latest Callide coal outage appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Your Democracy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 16:57 Source

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has launched a fresh critique of German work ethic, questioning why employees take an average of “almost three weeks” of sick leave annually instead of working harder to boost the country’s dwindling economy.

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MacroBusiness Monday, January 19, 2026 - 16:00 Source

Wall Street futures fell sharply alongside the USD (and Bitcoin) while gold and undollars rose on the weekend tariff orders from the Trump regime, with the Europeans playing hardball. Asian share markets are all in the red given the risk off mood with the latest Chinese economic figures (and more importantly – population figures –

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 15:22 Source

The world's first giga-scale battery project was installed in 2021. This year, there will be 120 of them.

The post More than 120 giga-scale battery projects planned around world in 2026, as costs continue to fall appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Monday, January 19, 2026 - 14:54 Source

CallideCCoal-plant-CS-Energy.jpgQueensland's troubled coal plant suffers new outages, just two months after huge maintenance spend, leading to evacuation and new questions about LNG energy plan.

The post Queensland’s fossil-first energy plan under attack with new outages and evacuation at troubled coal plant appeared first on Renew Economy.

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